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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?
(a) Weeping Willow.
(b) Eucalyptus.
(c) Elm.
(d) Pine.

2. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Ross Harrison.

3. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1927.

4. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Nine.

5. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(b) The National Society of Sciences.
(c) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(d) The University of Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Barbara's father have?

2. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?

3. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"

4. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

5. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?

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